Ethics of Care as Moral Grounding for AI *

Technology has always appeared as a way to expand human capacities. Today, emerging technologies such as AI are transforming the way that humans behave in society. This chapter focuses on how the reduction of decision-making to data analytics may lead to moral dilemmas in how we make decisions about people: who is included and who is excluded. It proposes a care-based approach to shed light on how relationships, interdependence, vulnerabilities, and emotions should not be ignored. The chapter introduces some important facts of how AI works, and presents ethics of care to mitigate the moral problems presented in AI and decision-making. It proposes some questions that may serve as guidelines when applying AI while considering the notion of care.